I really fucking love books

[MrsMakka]

I do. They are the one constant in my life, they've never let me down. It doesn't matter what happens during the day, 7.30pm, DC in bed,out comes the pile (or the Kindle).

I don't have money for holidays - doesn't matter because after 7.30 I can travel to any country I like, and some that don't even exist. When there's no happy endings in real life, open a book and you're swimming in them.

I love them. They're the best things ever. My life would be a barren, lonely wasteland without them. Books have given me so much. Wonderful, clever people out there have written them just to enrich my life, to give me pleasure, or knowledge, to help me relax, mostly for free as their book costs me nothing from the library (or £2.81 from Amazon at the most)

Fabulous bloody things.

Hi all - just moving this on over to Books. Shout if that's a problem, OP! x

26 books down this year! And I've just finished The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison has anyone read it? I thoroughly enjoyed it if that's the right word for something creepy

Love this thread! Always have two books on the go : one adult fiction or non fiction, plus one children's / YA, which I need to keep up with for work, but would read anyway as there is so much good stuff out there. Also audiobook on phone in car. Just finished Neil Gaiman reading Ocean at The End of the Lane- brilliant.

I love books with a passion, a home is a sad place without books, shelves groaning under the weight of dvds and and shed loads of gadgetry, but not a book in sight, unless you include the Argos catalogue. I feel sad for the children growing up in such a place. I'm almost glad I grew up in a time when there wasn't much in the way of tv for children and laptops, mobiles and Ipads were light years away. My mother took us to the library as tots and the joy of selecting those early books and then getting our very own books at birthdays and Christmas imbued me with what became a life long love of reading. I also remember those long summe school holidays, with not a lot to do, given an uplift when the card from our local library arrived through the post informing me that the books I had ordered for a few pence were in. I'd sit in the garden with a bag of sherbet lemons and an Enid Blyton as happy as Larry. I'm always buying books, I still have my childrens' early books that my young grandchildren seem to enjoy. I'd rather spend half an hour browsing Waterstones these days than any clothes or shoe shops. I just can't stop buying them, I never catch up with all the books I want to read, husband and I always have a book on the go, always. Best way to get to sleep or take your mind off the annoyances of life. So good to know others feel the same. I believe there are still a few of us out there given all the other distractions around.

When DH and I got married, we had our honeymoon in Hay on Wye . Happy times spent browsing books and sitting in cafes drinking coffee, eating cake and reading books. It was mid winter, cold and snowy, and we were very happy.

Mrs Makka - see you have "Star of the Sea" on your list, I just loved that book, possibly one of my all time favourites. It was on Richard and Judy's book club list a dozen or so years ago. I wouldn't have chosen that book without their review. I'm now always scouring other people's best reads. I have MN to thank for other favourites, Middlesex, The Poisonwood Bible, The Blind Assassin, The Quincunx. You never know when you start a book whether it's going to be one that will stay with you for years to come and induce a state of euphoria when reading it. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and The Water Babies did that for me in childhood. Have managed to imbue the desire to read for life, I think, in one of my children, but sadly not the other.

I love books too! I eat, sleep and drink them. I am always trawling amazon online, bookstores etc to get new ideas and am addicted to BookTube too :-)

There is nothing better than cosying up with a gripping novel. I'm currently reading Little Deaths by Emma Flint and I cannot put it down! I can't imagine not having a book to turn to, to escape to. 📚📚📚📚

Love all the suggestions on here.

I love escaping in a book and my oldest DD is the same but is finding it harder to draw herself away from tablet computer. My youngest is speeding through the reading levels so I hope we can install a love of books before gadgets take over!

Love reading books too and have always read. And read every night before I go to sleep - as well as often having a bath so I can get in it with a good book.

Two DDs who read too, one more than the other but we have lots of books in the house.

DH, on the other hand, doesn't read at all!!

I came from a whole house that didn't read hence why I can read in any noise. People find that very weird but you could drop a bomb and I probably wouldn't budge.

Trying to encourage reading in my home with my dsd and dp although he only reads biographies about people with better lives apparently!

Me too! I love books in any language that I speak and any format! I love audiobooks at the dentist especially though! They get me through route canals.

I grew up surrounded by books, my dad wouldn't read fiction but he had loads of non-fiction, my mum read romances and my brother read sci-fi/fantasy. I read everything, and still do. Reading is my happy place.

Was it the OP who was recommended The Woman in White? I would also recommend The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, one of my favorite books, with a fabulous interfering spinster in it and wonderful characterisations.